Pak. court indicts Hafiz Saeed on terror financing charges
The anti-terrorism court adjourned the hearing till Thursday
An antiterrorism Court (ATC) indicted
JamaatudDawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed on terror financing charges on Wednesday
in Lahore. An FIR against Saeed and other JuD leaders Abdul Ghaffar, Hafiz
Masood, Ameer Hamza and Malik Zafar Iqbal was registered in July on charges of
terror financing. The case against Saeed and the others was registered by the
CounterTerrorism Department (CTD) in Gujranwala. Saeed was brought to the court
under strict security.
Court proceedings went on for over an hour
in ATC1 under Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta. Saeed and other JuD leaders’ lawyers
Naseeruddin Advocate and Imran Fazal Gill denied the charges pertaining to
terrorism financing on their clients’ behalf. Judge Bhutta ordered the prosecution
to complete the evidence for a fair trial. The court had earlier postponed the
indictment due to the unavailability of one of the suspects. Indictment is a
standard procedure in a criminal trial. The next hearing of the case will be
held on Thursday. Saeed is the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror
attacks that killed 166 people. He also has a bounty on his head worth $10
million by the U.S. government.
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